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International Rescue Committee
ORGANIZATION
Founded 1933. "The International Rescue Committee seeks to bring attention to forgotten or neglected crises and to pressure governments and international organizations to take action to help and protect refugees, displaced people and other victims of conflict."
Co-Chairmen as of November 2006: Alan R. Batkin, Tom Brokaw, Jonathan L. Wiesner, Winston Lord. Secretary, Vera Blinken. Vice Chair, Liv Ullmann. President and CEO, George Rupp. Chairmen emeriti: John C. Whitehead, James C. Strickler.
Board of Directors as of November 2006: Morton I. Abramowitz, Laurent Alpert, Betsy Blumenthal, Andrew H. Brimmer, Tom Brokaw, Beverlee Bruce, Jeremy Carver, Florence A. Davis, Susan Dentzer, Jodie Eastman, Katherine G. Farley, HRH Princess Firyal of Jordan, Jeffrey E. Garten, George F. Hritz, Frederick J. Iseman, Winston Lord, Robert E. Marks, Roman Martinez IV, Jay Mazur, Kathleen Newland, Indra Nooyi, Sarah O'Hagan, Susan Patricof, David L. Phillips, Samantha Power, George Rupp, George S. Sarlo, Thomas Schick, Jean Kennedy Smith, Josh S. Weston, Maureen White.
Board of Overseers as of November 2006: Madeleine Albright, Alan R. Batkin, F. William Barnett, Georgette F. Bennett, W. Michael Blumenthal, Jennifer Brokaw, Glenda Burkhart, Frederick Burkle, Nestor Carbonell, Robert Cotten, Robert P. De Vecchi, Robin Chandler Duke, Theodore J. Forstmann, Kenneth R. French, Maurice R. Greenberg, Andy Grove, Morton Hamburg, Karen Hein, Lucile Herbert, David Hunt, Howard Jonas, Marvin Josephson, Alton Kastner, Irena Kirkland, Henry Kissinger, Yong Kwok, Tom Lantos, Reynold Levy, Vincent Mai, John Makinson, Lucretia Martin, Roberto Martinez, Kati Marton, W. Allen Moore, Robert B. Oakley, Sadako Ogata, Catherine O'Neill, Regina S. Peruggi, Alexandra L. Peters, David N. Pincus, Colin Powell, Donald H. Putnam, Bruce Ratner, Missie Rennie, John Richardson, Felix Rohatyn, George Rupp, Jessica Seinfeld, Barbara Shailor, James T. Sherwin, Nancy Starr, H. Peter Stern, Lee Copley Thaw, John Train, Georgia Travers, William vanden Heuvel, Ronald Waldman, Leah Zell Wanger, Daniel Weiner, Randi Weingarten, Edwin Wesely, Anne Whitehead, Elie Wiesel, Jonathan L. Wiesner, James Wolfensohn, Guy P. Wyser-Pratte.
Official Website:
http://www.theirc.org/
Founding Date:
1933
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Morton I. Abramowitz |
Diplomat |
20-Jan-1933 |
|
US Ambassador to Turkey, 1989-91 |
| Madeleine Albright |
Diplomat |
15-May-1937 |
|
Bill Clinton's Secretary of State |
| F. William Barnett |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
Former Partner, McKinsey & Co. |
| W. Michael Blumenthal |
Government |
3-Jan-1926 |
|
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1977-79 |
| Tom Brokaw |
Journalist |
6-Feb-1940 |
|
Former anchor, NBC Nightly News |
| Sacha Baron Cohen |
Comic |
13-Oct-1971 |
|
Boyakasha! Respec |
| Isla Fisher |
Actor |
3-Feb-1976 |
|
Shannon Reed on Home and Away |
| Jeffrey E. Garten |
Educator |
29-Oct-1946 |
|
Dean of Yale Management, 1995-2005 |
| Maurice R. Greenberg |
Business |
4-May-1925 |
|
CEO of American International Group, 1967-2005 |
| Andy Grove |
Business |
2-Sep-1936 |
|
CEO of Intel, 1987-98 |
| Henry A. Grunwald |
Journalist |
3-Dec-1922 |
26-Feb-2005 |
Managing Editor of Time, 1968-79 |
| Henry Kissinger |
Government |
27-May-1923 |
|
US Secretary of State, 1973-77 |
| Thomas G. Labrecque |
Business |
17-Sep-1938 |
16-Oct-2000 |
CEO of Chase Manhattan, 1990-96 |
| Tom Lantos |
Politician |
1-Feb-1928 |
11-Feb-2008 |
Congressman from California, 1981-2008 |
| Winston Lord |
Diplomat |
17-Aug-1937 |
|
President, Council on Foreign Relations, 1977-85 |
| John Makinson |
Business |
? |
|
Chairman & CEO, Penguin Group |
| Roman Martinez IV |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
Former Partner, Lehman Brothers |
| Indra Nooyi |
Business |
28-Oct-1955 |
|
CEO of PepsiCo |
| Robert B. Oakley |
Diplomat |
12-Mar-1931 |
10-Dec-2014 |
US Ambassador to Pakistan, 1988-91 |
| Colin Powell |
Government |
5-Apr-1937 |
|
US Secretary of State, 2001-05 |
| Samantha Power |
Author |
21-Sep-1970 |
|
A Problem From Hell |
| Bruce Ratner |
Business |
23-Jan-1945 |
|
New York City developer |
| Thomas L. Rhodes |
Journalist |
c. 1941 |
|
President, National Review |
| Felix Rohatyn |
Business |
29-May-1928 |
|
Financier, Lazard Frères |
| James P. Rubin |
Government |
1960 |
|
State Department Spokesman, 1997-2000 |
| Albert Shanker |
Labor Leader |
14-Sep-1928 |
22-Feb-1997 |
American Federation of Teachers |
| Liv Ullmann |
Actor |
16-Dec-1938 |
|
The Passion of Anna |
| William vanden Heuvel |
Diplomat |
14-Apr-1930 |
|
US Ambassador to the UN Europe, 1977-79 |
| Randi Weingarten |
Labor Leader |
1957 |
|
President, United Federation of Teachers |
| Maureen White |
Activist |
? |
|
DNC National Finance Chair |
| John C. Whitehead |
Business |
2-Apr-1922 |
7-Feb-2015 |
US Deputy Secretary of State, 1985-89 |
| Elie Wiesel |
Activist |
30-Sep-1928 |
|
Anti-Holocaust and human-rights activist |
| James Wolfensohn |
Business |
1-Dec-1933 |
|
World Bank president, 1995-2005 |
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